March Festival Schedule

First friday of each month at 7-10 pm
Held at Rivermont Presbyterian Church in Enon, Virginia
(in Chesterfield County)

Mountain dulcimer music festival held at the Calvary United Methodist Church on Belle Avenue (Off Old Loudon Road, just east of Latham Circle)

• Featured Performers and
• Workshop Leaders Concerts
• Workshops for All Levels
• Mountain Dulcimer Rentals
• Vendors
• Luthiers
• Open Stage
• Jams
• Lunch and Snacks available

Held in Fair Park, it is the second oldest Irish festival in the United States and largest in the southwest. The festival has a proud tradition of being an exclusively volunteer organization that brings over 35,000 guests to Dallas each year. As the second largest cultural event held in Fair Park, it occupies the largest buildings and largest open area on the site. Fair Park has been home to the festival for 24 of it's 25 years, having moved from it's first location on Oak Lawn in 1984. The festival is produced by the Southwest Celtic Music Association.

Sponsored by the Louisville Dulcimer Society.
Held at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel. Call the hotel for reservations at 800.325.3535, and mention the Gathering to get festival rates - $75.00
(mountain duclimer and hammered dulcimer) Workshops, concert, jamming, vendors.
$5.00 registration per person should be sent to Louisville Dulcimer Society, in care of Maureen Sellars at the address below.

Information:
Maureen Sellers
4708 Corydon Pike
New Albany, Indiana 47150

Held at Lake Lawn Resort in Delevan.
Concerts, workshops, singing, and dancing. Dulcimer activities.

Info:
UMW Folk Center
Ann Schmid
PO Box 413
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201

Features workshops for Mountain Dulciner, Hammer Dulcimer and Autoharp
Concerts, jamming, and gospel sing.
Louise Ziegler organizes this event, and it helps support Recreation Unlimited (National Challenge Center for People with Disabilities).

Information:
Louise Ziegler
232 W. High Street
Ashley, Ohio 43003

Dulcimer festival held in the West Baton Rouge Community Center, 749 North Jefferson Avenue, Port Allen, Louisiana. Visit the website for a current list of performers.

Come and strum, relax & visit; Learn some new music under the majestic live oak trees along the Mississippi River in the sleepy Southern town of Port Allen, Louisiana. Guarantee good Cajun food and company.

Featuring Mountain Dulcimer along with fiddle, guitar, autoharp, mandolin, bowed psaltery, harmonica, rhythm instruments and hammered dulcimer.
Camping and plenty of motels close by.
On site camping and special hotel rates available.
Many on-site vendors!

Held at the Gunter Hill Corp of Engineer Park in Montgomery.

Lots of jamming, all week. Open stage. Plenty of campsites, many on the river. Boat ramp access. All activities held outside under the park pavillion, withing walking distance. Vendors welcome.

For additional information, map and flyer, call Barbara Betts 334.277.9102, or e-mail Heart Strings.

PetFest is a two-day event where you can hang out with your pets and enjoy shopping, discovering new products, good food, entertainment and activities all in a pet-friendly atmosphere. The event is held at WestWorld of Scottsdale under the large tent. PetFest happens rain or shine!

Hours: 10AM - 6PM

PetFest will have a Dog Park, Agility Competition and Public Course, Splash Dogs, Performing Pigs, painting with your dog, Lure Course, Flyball, Artist Ron Burns pet painting live, Sheriff Joe being honored, lots of photo opportunities with your dog, great presents to buy for your pet, Pet Adoption, Ask-A-Vet, and much much more . . . Visit our PetFest Website!

Sponsored by the Montgomery Dulcimer Players.
Located at Gunter Hill Corp of Engineers Park, 9 miles west of Montgomery. This is a beautiful park on the river. Open Stage, lots of jamming in the park all week.
Campers begin arriving early in the week.
Vendors welcome.

This is a casual, fun festival.
We promise you'll have a good time.

Held at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel
Three-day intensive residential weekend workshops featuring classes for hammered dulcimer and other instruments at the Historic Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry, West Virgini'.

Upper Potomac Web Site

The festival is held in the Museum for East Texas Culture (the old John H. Reagan High School) located at 400 Micheaux, Palestine, Texas. It is inside the Loop right off of Hwy 19/287 and just south of the courthouse. You can't miss it. The old, multi-story school building is red brick and sits back on the far side of Reagan Park.

Hammer Dulcimer, Mountain Dulcimer, clawhammer banjo, old-time fiddle, mandolin, bass, guitar.
Jamming, workshops, concerts, vendors.

Information:
Jerry Wright
4328 Effie
Bellaire, Texas 77401

• Waverly Junior High School, 520 East Main St
• Breakfast & Lunch Available
• Open Stage
• Lots of Jamming on Saturday
• Accommodations, campground nearby
• Dulcimers and all acoustical instruments welcome

Waverly is on US Highway 70 (The Broadway of America), and State Route 13, approximately 65 miles west of Nashville, 150 miles east of Memphis, 50 miles south of Clarksville, and 16 miles north of I-40, exit #143